SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR DIGITAL DESIGN:

All general submission guidelines apply. A DDAF Submission Form is required with this entry.
Digital Design Category Guidelines and Rules

All entries must be submitted as a PDF. Any submission other than a PDF will not be accepted.

A submission form must be submitted with the entry. Any entries without the submission form will not be accepted.

All submitted entries become the property of Columbus State Community College; however, the entrant retains rights to the work.

If the artwork is selected to be displayed in the Downtown Digital Arts Festival, the student will be contacted that his/her work will be displayed and a final due date as to when the mounted piece must be submitted. Once contacted, the following steps must be completed.

All entries must be mounted in the center of a 16”x 20” black matte board.

The design may be of any size but the exterior size requirement of the black matte board is 16” x 20”. The entry design may be a vertical or horizontal layout.

A completed DDAF Submission Form must be attached to each piece submitted. Place the form on the back of the entry board in the lower right corner.

Each image is to be labeled with entrant’s name and the title of the image on the back of the entry.

All entries must include the following or they will not be considered for judging.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

All general submission guidelines apply. A DDAF Submission Form is required of each participant.
Digital Photography Category Guidelines and Rules:

All DDAF FOTO entries will be 100% digital this year. Any Photoshop post-production is acceptable and encouraged.

You may submit a minimum of one (1) to a maximum of ten (10) individual pieces in one or more of the following categories (no more than ten images in total may be submitted). To be clear up to ten entries per contestant are allowed.

DDAF reserves the right to re-categorize entries and to create new categories, if deemed appropriate.

Entries must not defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any personal or proprietary rights of any third party.

All entries should be sized (cropped) to 2 inches x 2.5 inches (or 2.5 inches x 2 inches) at 300dpi. This will maintain the needed 8x10 crop ratio (4:5) which is the size the selected images will be printed. The submitted images should be saved as JPEG with a quality of 10. Each file should be saved with the entrants first and last name along with category and image name. Example: Jill_Smith_Portraiture_Beckythebride

The contestants whose images are chosen for printing will be contacted via email and asked to send an enlarged 8 inch x 10 inch at 300dpi from your original high resolution file.

Email all files at once (in one email) to digitalphoto@cscc.edu. In the subject line type: DDAF ENTRY 2014. Please download the submission form (one for each image entered), fill it out and either scan it or take a picture of it (crop it down to no longer than 2.5 inches @300dpi on its longest side) and attach it to the email with your images (saved as a JPEG with a quality of 10. If you submit 10 images then 10 submission forms should be submitted as well.

Images that are sent larger or smaller (or not in the correct image aspect ratio) will not be considered for judging. Prints selected for display will be matted and framed at the cost of the Integrated Media & Technology Department.

By entering this contest, you agree to abide by the rules of this contest and to accept the judges' decisions as final. You further agree that your entry is your own original work. Submission of an entry grants Columbus State Community College, and third parties authorized by CSCC, the exclusive, perpetual right to publish, use, edit, adapt, modify, excerpt and/or copy the entry for any and all purposes in any and all media currently in existence or hereafter developed without further compensation to you, which includes, but is not limited, the right to publish the entry on the CSCC website, use in class lectures, etc as we see fit in exhibitions and promotions of CSCC’s photography and related programs. However, the entrant retains all usage rights to the works. Again, DDAF and CSCC assume all entries are original photographs and are the works and property of the entrant, with all rights granted therein.

Each entry must include the following or it will not be considered for judging.

2 inch x 2.5 inch @ 300 dpi file, saved as a JPEG (with a quality of 10), saved with first and last name along with category and image name.